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Dear list, I do apologize if these are basic questions. I am fitting some GAM models using the mgcv package and following the model selection criteria proposed by Wood and Augustin (2002, Ecol. Model. 157, p. 157-177). One criterion to decide if a term should be dropped from a model is if the estimated degrees of freedom (EDF) for the term are close to their lower limit. What would be the

Dear all, I am a new user of R. I would like to know how to get fund's returns in percentage (%). For example, I use: R <- ts(read.xls("FundData"), frequency = 12, start = c(1996, 1)) Whith this program, the returns are like 0.0152699. But, I would like to have 1.52%. Please advise me about the function. Thanks! Fabrice

Hello fellow R's, I'm sure there must be an easy way to do this. But after digging in the documentation and thinking about it for a while I couldn't figure it out. I need to get a decreasing recursive vector in. I mean something like this: if starting at 2, and ending at 6, the vector should be 2 3 4 5 6 3 4 5 6 4 5 6 5 6 6 An easy way would be to do this x <-

Dear list, I'm interested in fitting a generalized additive model in which some of the covariates are derived quantities and known measurement errors, and I am not sure how to incorporate the uncertainty of these covariates into the model fitting process. Could anyone point me towards relevant examples or documentation? Thanks in advance, Julian Julian M. Burgos Fisheries Acoustics

I am using gam in mgcv (1.3-22) and trying to use gcv to help with model selection. However, I'm a little confused by the process of assessing GCV scores based on their magnitude (or on relative changes in magnitude). Differences in GCV scores often seem "obvious" with my poisson gams but with negative binomial, the decision seems less clear. My data represent a similar pattern as

Dear list, I?m wondering if there is something analogous to the TukeyHSD function that could be used for parametric terms in a GAM. I?m using the mgcv package to fit models that have some continuous predictors (modeled as smooth terms) and a single categorical predictor. I would like to do post hoc test on the categorical predictor in the models where it is significant. Any suggestions?

Dear list, Hello! I have a question about how to print a label in the plot. I am using the following code: <pdf("mel4_chr3_11cancer_cghFLasso.pdf", height=6, width=5);plot(Disease.FL, index=i, type="Single",main="Plot of Labels");dev.off(); But "Plot of Labels" has not been printed. Any suggestions? Thanks a lot! Allen

Hello R list, I need to compute empirical variograms using data from a large geographic area (~10^6 km2). Although I could not find a specific reference, I assume that both geoR and gstat calculate distances among data points assuming points are on a flat surface (using the Pythagorean Theorem). Because the location of my data is large and located near the pole, assuming that latitude and

Hello fellow R's, I do apologize if this is a basic question. I'm doing some GAMs using the mgcv package, and I am wondering what is the most appropriate way to determine how much of the variability in the dependent variable is explained by each term in the model. The information provided by summary.gam() relates to the significance of each term (F, p-value) and to the

Dear list, I´m using the mgcv package to model the proportion by weight of certain prey on the stomach content of a predator. This proportion is the ratio of two weights (prey weight over stomach weight), and ranges between 0 and 1. The variance is low when proportion is close to 0 and 1, and higher at intermediate values. It seems that the best way to go is to model this using the

This is my first time running GAMs in R. My csv file has these column headings: "X" "Y" "Sound" "Atlantic" "Blacktip" "Bonnet" "Bull" "Finetooth" "Lemon" "Scalloped" "Sandbar" "Spinner" "Abundance" "Diversity"

What is the name of the function to give me the mode (central tendancy) of a numeric variable that can be negative? [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi all, My question concerns 2 error messages; one in the gam package and one in the mgcv package (see below). I have read help files and Chambers and Hastie book but am failing to understand how I can solve this problem. Could you please tell me what I must adjust so that the command does not generate error message? I am trying to achieve model selection for a GAM which is required for

Hello, I have been trying to find out whether it is possible to use more than one offset in a gam (in mgcv). The reason I would like to do this is to 1) account for area surveyed in a Poisson model of sightings of porpoises within defined grid cells (each cell has a slightly different area) and 2) account for detection probability within each grid cell (some grid cells are further away from the

Hi, there, I have 5 datasets. I would like to choose a basis spline with same knots in GAM function in order to obtain same basis function for 5 datasets. Moreover, the basis spline is used to for an interaction of two covarites. I used "cr" in one covariate, but it can only smooth w.r.t 1 covariate. Can anyone give me some suggestion about how to choose a proper smoothing spline

Hi there, I'm using presence-absence data in a gam (i.e. 0 or 1 as values) I am trying to run a gam with 'dummy covariates' i.e. 1~1 unfortunately my model: * model<-gam(1~1, data=bats, family=negbin)* keeps putting out: * Error in gam(1 ~ 1, data = bats, family = negbin) : Not enough (non-NA) data to do anything meaningful* Is there a specific reason it would do this? I have

Hello fellow R's, I apologize if this question was answer elsewhere. I have an executable file that I need to run from R. Basically I want to use R to create the input files this executable requires, then run it, and finally use R again to analyze the output files. Because I have to do this many times I'd like to have the R code call the executable file after the input files are

Hi Could anyone please tell me what to do to resolve this error message? I tried to run a gam with the mgcv package and got the following error: "Error in qr.qty(qrc, sm$S[[1]]): NA/NaN/Inf in foreign function call (arg 5)" (I have 116 covariates, I'm using the "cr" basis to speed things up, the binomial family and, where necessary, have set the required k to lower than

Dear R users, I am using the *mgcv package* to model the ratio of hectares of damaged culture by wild boar in french departments according to some environmental covariates. I used a _Beta distribution_ for the response. For each department, we estimated the damaged in 3 different culture types (??Culture??). Our statistical individual are therefore the department crossed by the culture

Hi I am working on R 2.5.0 on window. I am trying to provide a Hyper-link to the user as a result, I have tried using gtkLinkButton to exercise the facility, however, i am not able to perform the required task, i.e. when I clicked on the LinkButton actually nothing happened. I have gone through the documentation for the same and found that GtkLinkButtonUriFunc is a function which is require to